Best Western Films of 1950

Copper Canyon

Set just after the ... he falls in league with a group of Southern copper-miners being harassed as they try to make a living. [ best western films - 1950 ]

Trail of Robin Hood

Filmed in eye-pleasing Trucolor, ... others. Cheseboro wins them over by explaining "After 20 years of being beaten up by Holt, he's reformed me." [ best western films - 1950 ]

Branded

Rancher Charles Bickford comes ... than it reads. For reasons unknown, a clip of Branded showed up in the 1977 Burt Reynolds vehicle Hustle. [ best western films - 1950 ]

Mule Train

Though the hit song ... wife of Pat Buttram, who also appears in Mule Train in his usual role as Gene Autry's comical sidekick. [ best western films - 1950 ]

Beyond the Purple Hills

Gene Autry and his ... playing Autry's wrongly accused buddy: it's none other than Hugh O'Brian, later to gain fame as television's Wyatt Earp. [ best western films - 1950 ]

Indian Territory

Columbia's final release for ... Like most of Gene Autry's films from this era, Indian Territory co-stars Pat Buttram and Gail "Annie Oakley" Davis. [ best western films - 1950 ]

North of the Great Divide

Roy Rogers goes "PC" ... stance of North of the Great Divide makes this one of the most prescient of Roy Rogers' feature films. [ best western films - 1950 ]

Annie Get Your Gun

Judy Garland was originally ... Berlin and librettists Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields, Annie Get Your Gun hasn't been shown on television in years. [ best western films - 1950 ]

The Sundowners

Filmed in a two-tone ... be confused with the 1960 Warners film of the same name, which is set on an Australian sheep ranch. [ best western films - 1950 ]

Trigger, Jr.

According to Roy Rogers ... Likin' to Ya", by Peter Tinturin; "The Big Rodeo", by Foy Willing; and "Stampede", by Willing and Carol Rice. [ best western films - 1950 ]

The Capture

Virtually ignored at the ... the man he'd killed so long before. The Capture was produced by Niven Busch, the then-husband of Teresa Wright. [ best western films - 1950 ]

Cow Town

At first glance, Cow ... who'd later star in the Autry-produced TV series Annie Oakley, and ace stunt men Jock Mahoney and Ted Mapes. [ best western films - 1950 ]

Twilight in the Sierras

The King of the ... Twilight in the Sierras was designed and marketed as a "special," aiming beyond its usual small-town and regional audiences. [ best western films - 1950 ]

High Lonesome

When there is a ... and are getting their own revenge on those who were involved in the range war which left them wounded. [ best western films - 1950 ]